The Prodigies War-Novel

“Humph! Seeking death!” snorted the Black Bat King disdainfully.

He would have been apprehensive of Lin Xun before the completion of the Demon Devourer Blood Prison Array, but now, he just couldn’t wait for him to come and die.

“Come, Lin Xun. Come and give us a show.”

“He could have lived, but he chose to rush right into his doom. We may as well fulfill your wish then.”

The other monster-beast Kings all happily chimed in.

The beasts all over the Sorrow Mountain Range instantly laughed with them. Since the array boosted their confidence, they all looked at Lin Xun like he was a dead man.

A monster-beast King was even worried. “What if he’s so scared that he’ll flee?”

The Black Bat King shouted, “Everyone, keep your voices down! Don’t scare the brat’s guts out of him!”

This earned another burst of fearless and arrogant laughter.

Seeing this, Qi Can’s group couldn’t help but frown, sensing that something was wrong.

“Instructor, should we remind Senior Lin?” A student was worried.

The others also agreed. This was obviously a well-prepared trap. They didn’t want to watch Lin Xun die.

“Even you can see this. You think he can’t?”

Qi Can’s reply was simple, but it eased the anxiety in the students’ hearts.

“Do you really think that this big array can protect you?” Lin Xun stopped at a distance. His eyes flashed like lightning, and his lips curled into a sneer.

“Ignorant fool! Let’s see if you can still say such stupid words after you have a taste of this array!” laughed the Black Bat King coldly as he swung his hand.

The blood moon in the sky suddenly emitted a piercing scarlet glow. And then, in the land within a thousand mile radius, blood-red mist steamed up.

In that instant, an intense murderous air surged along with roars that seemed to come from the depths of hell. The flowing, blood-red moonlight reflected horrifying phenomena of a sea of corpses and blood and a mountain of white bones, over which echoed the wailing of demons.

It was as if a hell of blood had emerged in the mortal world!

In just a second, Lin Xun was engulfed by the rolling scarlet mist and could no longer be seen.

Despite their confidence in Lin Xun, Qi Can’s group still tensed up and revealed anxious expressions when they saw this.

Meanwhile, the Black Bat King sneered. “Looks like you greatly overestimate yourself because you were able to kill the Golden Armor King. Still, it’s not a disgrace to die in this array.”

The other monster-beast Kings all laughed. Inwardly, they were greatly reassured.

It would be a lie to say that they hadn’t been apprehensive when facing Lin Xun. After all, even Golden Armor King had died at his hands.

But now, they realized that the rumors were exaggerated, for the arrogant and cocky brat had been easily and swiftly trapped in their grand array!

“Is he just too weak?” asked a monster-beast dubiously.

“No, it only proves that the array bestowed by Lord Monster-Beast Ancestor is too powerful. No one under the Saint stage can survive it, so how can it be ordinary?” Black Bat King was smug and satisfied.

He had even thought out what news to release once he killed Lin Xun in order to let the human cultivators in the whole world see how weak the person they had pinned great hopes on was!

The thousand miles of land was drenched in a bloody light and violent explosions. The sky was dim. The cries of ghosts and demons echoed. Countless complex and bizarre blood-red symbols flowed, exuding a horrifying aura that caused even the hearts of the monster-beast Kings on the Sorrow Mountain Range to skip in fright.

Qi Can’s group also felt suffocated as their hearts were filled with terror, and their spirits were suppressed to the point that they couldn't see clearly what was going on inside the array.

This heightened their worries, and their hearts leaped to their throats.

The Black Bat King looked fervent. “Refine him. Once he’s dead, Lord Monster-Beast Ancestor will definitely reward me generously. Becoming a Saint and an ancestor will be just around the corner!”

The other monster-beast Kings also watched expectantly.

A violent explosion suddenly erupted from within the array.

And then a shocking scene happened right in front of all the beasts on the Sorrow Mountain Range.

A blue-clad figure emerged, unharmed and emanating a boundless halo as he walked out from the churning blood mist like a demonic god descending the world.

“How…”

The Black Bat King and his subordinates nearly popped their eyes as they gawked in disbelief.

……

Lin Xun raised his head, revealing a glint of horrifying killing intent in his dark eyes.

It was only upon entering the grand array had he realized the mystery behind its arrangement. The array was actually refined with the essence blood of at least a hundred thousand human cultivators!

A hundred thousand!

Simply an unforgivable sin!

“You must all die.”

Looking at the mountains densely packed with monster-beasts, Lin Xun’s heart blazed with killing intent. His aura skyrocketed and cut across the heavens like a divine light.

……

“He really…didn’t die…”

“He’s not even injured!”

“How is this possible?”

The Black Bat King and a host of monster-beast Kings were frozen on the Sorrow Mountain Range, unable to believe nor accept this outcome. Their entire army began to stir.

This was the Demon Devourer Blood Prison Array!

It was a gift from their Lord Monster-Beast Ancestor, possessing an extremely terrifying power that was supposed to exterminate anyone under the Saint stage. But now, it seemed to be ineffective…

This was unbelievable.

Unfortunately for them, they were clueless about Lin Xun’s attainments in runes. For him, who was powerful enough to set up a true forbidden formation, a mere Demon Devourer Blood Prison Array was nothing at all!

“Damn it! Could it be that Lord Monster-Beast Ancestor lied to us?!” A monster-beast King was furious.

“It’s useless to talk about this now. Prepare to fight. With our abilities combined, do you believe that we still can’t deal with Lin Xun?” The Black Bat King gritted his teeth, his face gloomy.

His greatest reliance had failed to work its miracle, which was like a blunt knock on his head, and he felt extremely stifled.

“Die!”

Lin Xun’s hair danced as he reached the Sorrow Mountain Range in a single step like a rainbow shooting down from the sky.

A monster-beast King couldn’t dodge in time and was directly crushed under Lin Xun’s feet. Blood splattered up high.

“Together!” roared the Black Bat King.

Hearing this, the other monster-beast Kings dared not delay and all launched into action.

“Kill!”

A fierce battle erupted.

Looking from afar, one could only see a dazzling figure moving sharply like a divine blade and setting off a bloody storm on the Sorrow Mountain Range.

He kept charging forth, his momentum unstoppable.

The beasts on his path couldn’t even move under his terrifying might and were cut down in large patches like grass.

The mountains were quickly dyed red.

Even the strongest of monster-beast Kings couldn’t hinder Lin Xun one bit. With just a raise of his hand, he punched them to pieces one by one.

The monsters’ tragic screams shook the heavens.

As Lin Xun was engrossed in the killing, the Taixuan sword qi in his acupoints whizzed out and formed a rain of swords. With unmatched sharpness, they tore through the air like cutting paper and spared not a single life on their wake!

The countless monster-beasts had started fleeing, but none could escape death, their Kings included.

Watching from the distance, Qi Can’s group had nearly screamed out in excitement upon seeing Lin Xun breaking free from the array.

And when they saw him charging up the Sorrow Mountain Range and crushing the enemies like an invincible demonic god, they were all dumbfounded.

Before this, they had only heard about some of his legendary deeds and had never seen them with their own eyes. Only now did they finally know how powerful Lin Xun was.

His domineering power that allowed him to peer down upon the world and suppress everything amazed them and shook them to the core!

Sword qi flashed through and sliced a giant bat, which was the original form of the Black Bat King, in half.

By this point, all of the monster-beast Kings occupying the Sorrow Mountain Range had been executed!

And it had all happened in just nineteen breaths.

On this day, there were rivers of blood and countless corpses all over the Sorrow Mountain Range as the Black Bat King and many monster-beast Kings under him were mercilessly slaughtered!

When the news spread, it shook the empire.

The other day, a bunch of monster-beast Kings had stood out and declared their desire to execute Lin Xun and give the Ziyao Empire one of the heaviest blows it would have ever suffered.

At that time, many monster-beast Kings like the Earth Dragon King in the eastern province, the notoriously monstrous White Wasp King, the Fire Molten King occupying the desert, and the Ink Sheep King in Flowing River Province had directed their murderous intent at Lin Xun alone.

Upon realizing the gravity of the situation, the empire had been shaken and countless cultivators had been in an uproar, worrying for Lin Xun’s safety.

Even the imperial palace hadn’t been able to rest easy.

The bewildering news of the Sorrow Mountain Range spread when everyone was still worried about how Lin Xun would solve his impending calamity, so how could it not shock them?

“Just like the Golden Armor King, that Black Bat King and his entire army were wiped out in one go!”

“Young Master Lin is too fierce. He replied to the threats of those monster-beast Kings with a grand-scale massacre. Overbearing is not enough to describe this.”

Every cultivator in the empire was cheering fervently.

Anyone who learned of this news was ecstatic and instantly got up on their feet to spread it.

It felt like their life-long hatred had been vented! It felt extremely refreshing!

……

“This damned Lin Xun! Is he really that tired of living?!”

“The Black Bat King is the most intelligent and resourceful of us, but he was killed too? Is this Lin Xun really so terrifying?”

“Looks that our threats didn’t work, and instead we even enraged that brat.”

The news was like a thunderbolt out of the blue for the monster-beast force, shocking every single one of them.

“Everyone, it’s time to retaliate! Lin Xun must be gotten rid of!”

“Slaughter the cities! He alone can’t stop us from attacking the entire empire!”

Some monster-beast Kings declared in fury, once again stirring the world. The atmosphere in the Ziyao Empire became increasingly tense.

Immediately, the monster-beast occupying various regions began to deploy in force!